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Humankind will soon lose a great deal of vigilance over the ozone layer, which shields life on Earth from harmful solar radiation. The impending loss of NASA’s Aura and the Canadian Space Agency’s SCISAT satellites threatens scientists’ ability to closely monitor compounds that destroy ozone and alter stratospheric circulation. With no planned missions to replace...
Group members, led by Chris Wilson, join UN led collaboration to measure methane emissions from the 2022 Nord Stream Pipeline Leak – largest ever leak of methane recorded We employed the atmospheric chemistry transport model, TOMCAT, to track the methane plume over 1,500 km back to its source and produce an estimate of the leak...
The Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, fulfilled an ambition by meeting PhD student Emily Dowd at the university. Mayor Brabin was on campus to attend the launch of the UK Earth Observation Network for Sustainability (UK-EONS) and was delighted to secure an unexpected photo with Emily. In her speech the Mayor paid tribute to...
Richard is one of ten innovators who have been awarded a total of £1.5 million through the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) knowledge exchange (KE) fellowships. The three-year KE fellowships are designed to enable the sharing, flow and translation of knowledge and expertise between NERC-remit researchers and the research sector, businesses, policymakers and the public. TOMCAT...
PhD student Emily Dowd achieved the most-viewed BBC Science article on the BBC Website on 16/9/2023: Major UK methane greenhouse gas leak spotted from space. The story relates to Emily's use of GHGSat satellite data to discover a natural gas leak from a pipeline near Cheltenham. This received widespread media attention and is now published...
Luana Basso's recent TOMCAT inversion model study in Atmos Chem Phys has been selected as an Editor's highlight. The Editor's citation is: "The Amazon's role in the tropical and global carbon cycle is highly significant. Usually considered as the "lung of the planet", it is mandatory to monitor if this role is kept, or if...
Wuhu Feng's recent GRL paper on iodine propulsion is highlighted in Nature article. Feng, W., J.M.C. Plane, M.P. Chipperfield, A. Saiz-Lopez and J.-P. Booth, Potential stratospheric ozone depletion due to iodine injection from small satellites, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102300, doi:10.1029/2022GL102300, 2023.
No ozone hole in the tropics! We have just led and published a strong rebuttal of a paper in AIP Advances which claimed that there (Chipperfield et al., 2022). That paper had not only claimed large ozone depletion in the tropics but gave an erroneous mechanism for polar ozone depletion. Chipperfield, M.P., A. Chrysanthou, R....
Stephen Anderson, Marco Gonzalez and Nancy Sherman have written an EOS article on the Montreal Protocol, highlighting twelve papers which formed "the scientific basis for fast action to strengthen the treaty, which was already safeguarding stratospheric ozone, so it also protects the climate by reducing super pollutants.". One of the 12 papers is our study...
Emily's talk at ESA Living Planet symposium highlighted. (ESA story). Emily was presenting work that is now published in her Atmos. Chem. Phys. paper. Dowd, E., C. Wilson, M.P. Chipperfield, E. Gloor, A. Manning and R. Doherty, Decreasing seasonal cycle amplitude of methane in the northern high latitudes being driven by lower latitude changes...